Advent with Aleteia #jour 17: to serve one's own (without making a head)
Every day of Advent, Aleteia offers you to become a disciple of Christ by renewing your heart in a more loving heart. Today, Aleteia invites you to find in service to others a source of fulfillment.
Saint Camille de Lellis, Saint Vincent de Paul, Mother Teresa, Sister Emmanuelle, the spouses La Garaye, Follereau, Nottegar... and so many others have dedicated their lives to serving the weakest, the poorest and the sickest. A total application of the gospel and charity, to which Jesus Christ invites us: "Every time you have done it to one of my youngest brothers, you have done it to me" (Mt 25:40). At his installation Mass on March 19, 2013, Pope Francis had these humble words when talking about his papal mission: "Let us never forget that true power is service." Even if we do not have the vocation to go to the end of the world to heal the most desticent, there is no shortage of opportunities to serve others. And family life offers a magnificent condensed.
Indeed, a responsibility such as that of a father or mother of a family involves being in the service of his family, his spouse, his children on a daily basis. However, sometimes this spirit of benevolence is sustained, not chosen. Let us act out of duty and not out of love. When you are tired, in need of recognition or in a state of saturation for "services rendered at home". It is at this point that one must, first of all, take time for oneself to recharge, and secondly, to draw with all one's soul from its inner reservoir of love to transform, in the light of Christ, its way of serving. An approach facilitated through intimacy with God, Him who is the source of all love. Eline Landon, in her book Burn out Maternal and Spiritual Exhaustion (Artège), testifies: "Heaven is in us, but too often we have forgotten it. We must find this heaven, the presence of Jesus in us, hidden in the depths of our being, he who is able to lift us up, to right us, to love us as we are, and to make life spring into us."
A model in this area: the Virgin Mary. Who has defined herself as the "servant of the Lord" (Lk 1:38). "It was in obedience to the Word of God that she welcomed her privileged, but not at all easy, vocation as the wife and mother of The Family of Nazareth. By putting herself at the service of God, she has also put herself at the service of men: the service of love. It is this service that has allowed him to realize in his life the experience of a mysterious but authentic "royalty". (...) His "royalty" is a service! His service is a "royalty"! Pope John Paul II in his Letter to Women (June 29, 1995). A royal power, therefore, to which is invited anyone who puts himself at the service of his own for love.
Saint Camille de Lellis, Saint Vincent de Paul, Mother Teresa, Sister Emmanuelle, the spouses La Garaye, Follereau, Nottegar... and so many others have dedicated their lives to serving the weakest, the poorest and the sickest. A total application of the gospel and charity, to which Jesus Christ invites us: "Every time you have done it to one of my youngest brothers, you have done it to me" (Mt 25:40). At his installation Mass on March 19, 2013, Pope Francis had these humble words when talking about his papal mission: "Let us never forget that true power is service." Even if we do not have the vocation to go to the end of the world to heal the most desticent, there is no shortage of opportunities to serve others. And family life offers a magnificent condensed.
Indeed, a responsibility such as that of a father or mother of a family involves being in the service of his family, his spouse, his children on a daily basis. However, sometimes this spirit of benevolence is sustained, not chosen. Let us act out of duty and not out of love. When you are tired, in need of recognition or in a state of saturation for "services rendered at home". It is at this point that one must, first of all, take time for oneself to recharge, and secondly, to draw with all one's soul from its inner reservoir of love to transform, in the light of Christ, its way of serving. An approach facilitated through intimacy with God, Him who is the source of all love. Eline Landon, in her book Burn out Maternal and Spiritual Exhaustion (Artège), testifies: "Heaven is in us, but too often we have forgotten it. We must find this heaven, the presence of Jesus in us, hidden in the depths of our being, he who is able to lift us up, to right us, to love us as we are, and to make life spring into us."
A model in this area: the Virgin Mary. Who has defined herself as the "servant of the Lord" (Lk 1:38). "It was in obedience to the Word of God that she welcomed her privileged, but not at all easy, vocation as the wife and mother of The Family of Nazareth. By putting herself at the service of God, she has also put herself at the service of men: the service of love. It is this service that has allowed him to realize in his life the experience of a mysterious but authentic "royalty". (...) His "royalty" is a service! His service is a "royalty"! Pope John Paul II in his Letter to Women (June 29, 1995). A royal power, therefore, to which is invited anyone who puts himself at the service of his own for love.
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